General info about local database with expansion capabilities.

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 3/23/04 11:14 AM, "Rick" <rickgeorge88 at charter.net> wrote:

Hi Rick,

> Since I am new to the .Net environment I have a few questions...

> Is Valentina an Object - Relational database (support both definitions)?

Yes, although you should note, that NOT exists standard on term
Object-Relational, as for example exists ODMG standard for OO DBMS.

So we have OWN features, which WE think are OR.

> Personal opinion on which is best?

Actually  Valentina allows use any or mix them.
Usually mixing give best results

> Is Valentina tightly integrated into Visual Studio .Net (work entirely inside
> of VS to work with Valentina)?

VNET -- this is just function calls.

> Why would I need this (IMB ICU Unicode library 4-8 MB)?

Because Valentina 2.0 engine internally work with UTF16,
And since Valentina is cross-platform, we do not want depend on OS API of
Microsoft or Apple or Linux.

So we have own built-in support of Unicode thanks to ICU.


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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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